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Oregon Days of Culture feature Cappella Romana Hagia Sophia Performance
Oregon Days of Culture and the Portland Tribune & Community Newspapers have a wonderful feature on the upcoming Stanford Residency concerts and the “Icons of Sound” project highlighting “The Sounds of Hagia Sophia.” Heavenly Experience: Vocal chamber ensemble Cappella Romana performs from Portland to Stanford to Greece “It is said that when the Slavic people
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Oregon Arts Watch Reviews Choral Glory
Photo courtesy of Oregon ArtsWatch Oregon ArtsWatch with a review of our recent collaboration with the Portland Baroque Orchestra — Choral Glory! “It didn’t take long for this new Oregon classical music season to produce the first truly great performance I’ve heard this fall. Friday night’s concert featuring the superb Portland choir Cappella Romana and
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Ivan Moody on the Rachmaninoff Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Following three sold-out performances last season of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), this year Cappella Romana presents Rachmaninoff’s earlier sacred masterpiece, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1910). Composer (and friend of Cappella Romana) Fr. Ivan Moody, published some wonderful program notes for the Corydon Singers recording of this work, and we’ll quote some of
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Ross Ritterman Guest Blogs on preparing the CCRMA for Tonight’s Concert
Guest blog from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church’s Ross Ritterman: The CCRMA Crew working to hang the 24 speakers for tonight’s performance My name is Ross Ritterman and I am one of a group of about 10 people who help lead many of the services at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Belmont, California. In
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Tage Alter Musik Festival Review
Mittelbayerische Zeitung with a review of our Tage Alter Musik Festival performance in Regensberg, Germany (translated into English by Dr. Constantine Kokenes): View the review in original German on www.mittelbayerische.de Sounds from Mount Sinai U.S. based ensemble Cappella Romana in their first performance in Germany as part of the early music festival, Tage Alter Musik:
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Coming in May 2014 – A Time for Life
Robert Kyr Robert Kyr: A Time For Life An Environmental Oratorio with Third Angle new Music Ensemble Just after Earth Day (April 22), Cappella Romana reprises the exciting and innovative work by Northwest composer Robert Kyr, A Time for Life, commissioned by Cappella Romana for its premiere in 2007. Kyr’s work is inspired by the
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Get your CappellaCare Today!
All of us at Cappella Romana are looking forward to our concert at the National Gallery of Art on October 27th, in honor of the exhibition: “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections.” However, due to the current standoff in Congress and the government shutdown, this concert may not take place! But don’t
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A Time For Life — Conclusion
The final phase of the journey (Part III: Remembering) moves towards a hopeful future in which humanity serves as a responsible steward of the earth and thus realigns itself with the creative forces of existence. This journey is a spiritual one in which we remember our true responsibility of stewardship for the earth, and through
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Timo Nuoranne to Direct Arctic Light in January
Timo Nuoranne from Helsinki Directs Cappella Romana in “Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music” in January 2014 Back by popular demand, this program of sumptuous choral works from the Orthodox Church of Finland was first performed to sold-out audiences in 2008. Timo Nuoranne, a faculty member at the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki and one
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Arctic Light: Orthodox Choral Music from Finland — Program Notes
Arctic Light Orthodox Choral Music from Finland The history of Orthodox Christianity in Finland goes back to the 12th century when trade was initiated between Carelia and traders from Novgorod. The early establishment of monasteries in Karelia, especially Valamo (Valaam) and Konevitsa on the islands of Lake Ladoga, and later, at Petsamo (Pechenga, on the
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Ivan Moody Talks Arctic Light with Fanfare
Ivan Moody talks about Cappella Romana’s latest release, Arctic Light with Fanfare Magazine‘s James Altena. Read a couple of the questions below and find the full interview on the Fanfare website Fanfare: How did your particular association with the Cappella Romana come about, and what led to the recording of your Arctic Light CD with
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Keeping Up with the Venetians — Part One
Keeping Up with the Venetians Program Notes for Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky The islands in the Venetian lagoon, which by the 8th century had banded together to ally themselves with the Empire of the Romans governed from Constantinople (Byzantium), quickly became one of the inhabited world’s great centers of power and wealth.
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